posted on X<\/a>. LP Media<\/p>\nAuthorities raided three homes in the Detroit suburbs of Dearborn and Inkster and recovered weapons including legally owned guns, the sources said.<\/p>\n
Those arrested were described as home-grown radicals, but authorities were investigating possible foreign contacts of the suspects.<\/p>\n
FBI and Michigan State Police vehicles were spotted in a neighborhood near Fordson High School in Dearborn. Investigators walked in and out of a house, with one official collecting paper bags and other items from an evidence truck.<\/p>\n
The alleged plotters spoke of launching a \u201cpumpkin day\u201d assault while they were under round-the-clock FBI surveillance and trained at a local shooting range, the sources said.<\/p>\n
A juvenile was among those arrested, two people familiar with the investigation told The Post, with one source specifying that suspect is 16 years old.<\/p>\n
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force members stand in front of a home in Dearborn, Mich. Friday.<\/p>\n
There was internal dissent within the group about whether they should go ahead with an attack on Halloween, with some believing they needed more time to prepare, the sources said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear how well-developed any attack plans were, with one source saying targets did not appear to have been picked out.<\/p>\n
Those arrested were described as home-grown radicals, but authorities were investigating possible foreign contacts of the suspects.<\/p>\n
Members of the group also were overheard speaking about visiting New York City\u2019s Rockefeller Center and watching the sunrise at the Statue of Liberty \u2014 but sources said that trip was planned as a tourist excursion and there is no known threat to the Big Apple.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement sources specified to The Post there is no threat to Friday night\u2019s Village Halloween Parade and added that the NYPD assisted in surveilling the suspects, without providing specifics. <\/p>\n
An FBI Evidence Response Team member in Dearborn, Mich. Friday morning. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Patel\u2019s tweet blindsided many federal and state officials and charging documents were not immediately available in the case, though\u00a0FBI Detroit spokesman Jordan Hall confirmed \u201cthere is no current threat to public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
A senior US official, who asked not to be identified, told The Post that the Dearborn Police Department was informed in advance of the FBI operation, but Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was not given an early heads-up.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen Patel posted, nobody had been briefed,\u201d\u00a0the official told The Post,\u00a0\u201cso now everybody\u2019s slowly getting the information.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Patel\u2019s initial disclosure, Whitmer\u00a0tweeted<\/a>: \u201cThis morning, I was briefed by Director Patel on the thwarted potential terrorist attack in our state. As details continue to develop, I am grateful for the swift action of the FBI and MSP protecting Michiganders.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24\/7 and crushing our mission to defend the homeland,\u201d Patel wrote on X.<\/p>\n
In May, the FBI announced the arrest of a man authorities said had been planning an attack against the US Army\u2019s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command in Warren, Mich. on behalf of ISIS.<\/p>\n
The suspect in that case, 19-year-old former Michigan Army National Guardsman Ammar Said, didn\u2019t know that his supposed allies in the alleged plot were undercover FBI employees.<\/p>\n
Sources tell The Post investigators will examine any connection between Friday\u2019s arrests and the case of Said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal investigators\u00a0prevented\u00a0a real-life Halloween horror by\u00a0busting at least five terror plotters inspired by ISIS in Michigan early Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5970,245,15914,9,11,10,3694,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-24759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-fbi","9":"tag-halloween","10":"tag-kash-patel","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-terrorism","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}